Deadly Premonition Gets Euro Date

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By Matt Wales

Rising Star Games has sprayed its delicious nectar of happiness across upturned faces of European survival horror fans with the news that Deadly Premonition is finally set to hit stores on October 29, just in time for Halloween.

Deadly Premonition follows FBI agent Francis York as he investigates the brutal murder of a local girl in the North West American town of Greenvale. There would end a fairly mundane news item if it wasn't for the fact that Deadly Premonition is utterly, completely bonkers.

It's basically Twin Peaks meets Clock Tower 3, combining traditional third-person survival horror action with real-time open-world exploration and ample cups of coffee. Featuring eccentric townspeople ripe for interrogation - unless, of course, you forget to shave, shower and eat, in which case they'll clam-up at your poor state of personal hygiene - lengthy country drives, all to the sounds of York's lengthy soliloquies on classic 80s movies, and some of the most hilariously shambolic cut-scenes ever to grace a video game, it's nothing if not unique.

IGN's very own Erik Brudvig awarded the game a "Terrible" 2 out of 10 on its US debut. Other sites have been far more generous. We'll be figuring out which side of the line we stand on (clue: we love it so far) when Deadly Premonition arrives in Europe at the end of October.